adj .
unusually mature ; uncommonly gifted 보통과는 달리 성숙한 ; 특별히 재능을 부여받은

• The precocious child could tie her shoes five minutes after she was born and tap dance efore she was a month old.
• Beethoven's father was so proud of his son's precocious musical genius that he used to wake the boy up in the middle of the night and make him play the piano for guests.
• 명사는 precociousness 또는 precocity 를 쓴다.
  Mr. and Mrs. Sherman were alarmed by the precocity of their son ; at the age fourteen, he was dating a thirty-year-old divorced woman, and at ate fifteen, he was engaged to be married.